Speaker 1: Hey, that folks. It took three hours and forty seven minutes,
Speaker 1: but the ninety seventh Oscars is in the books now
Speaker 1: and your winners for the night, Anora and Conan O'Brien,
Speaker 1: Welcome to this special Oscars edition of Amy and TJ.
Speaker 1: We are fresh off watching the show. A lot of people,
Speaker 1: probably rogues, went to bed and didn't see the end
Speaker 1: of the show, but we stayed up and watched it.
Speaker 1: We are recording this episode here of the show of
Speaker 1: Amy and TJ, just mere moments after watching. So what's
Speaker 1: fresh in our minds? And if somebody asked you first
Speaker 1: quick impressions of the night, first thing out of your
Speaker 1: mouth is I thought it.
Speaker 2: Was enjoyable and entertaining. There were a few annoying moments,
Speaker 2: but Conan O'Brien really brought it home. I thought he
Speaker 2: found a way to be funny, light and bright without
Speaker 2: being mean or dark, and most of his jokes landed,
Speaker 2: which was great.
Speaker 3: And I loved how they with the entertainment from Wicked.
Speaker 2: It drew me in from the beginning, and of course
Speaker 2: the ending was exactly what I was hoping for, so the.
Speaker 1: I agree with all of that. The show felt pretty good.
Speaker 1: It lag at times. We'll get into that in the second,
Speaker 1: but it's the head without question. The headline of the
Speaker 1: night is a Noorra good night. That movie cleaned up.
Speaker 1: It was nominated for six Oscars and it picked up five.
Speaker 1: That's they almost swept. And this is an independent film,
Speaker 1: didn't cost much to make.
Speaker 3: Six million dollars to make, and a surprise.
Speaker 1: Probably the biggest one is in the Best Actress category,
Speaker 1: where Demi Mour was Rogues the clear.
Speaker 2: Favorite absolutely and Mikey Madison, which was our favorite. Nothing
Speaker 2: against me Moore. I would have been happy if she
Speaker 2: had won as well. But we loved Mikey, we loved Donorra.
Speaker 2: It was the standout film that we both agreed on
Speaker 2: actually having watched all of the films, and so to
Speaker 2: see her get that recognition was pretty awesome. I felt,
Speaker 2: you know, you feel a little bit bad for Demi
Speaker 2: because this might be her one and only herrah. But
Speaker 2: they did show a picture of her after Mikey's speech,
Speaker 2: which was so sweet and so earnest, and Demi looked genuinely.
Speaker 3: Happy for her. It was a nice thing to see.
Speaker 1: So let's go from I guess the highlight the positive
Speaker 1: highlight of the night A Nora cleaned up Amelia Perez
Speaker 1: the most nominated film this year, thirteen Oscar nominations. They're
Speaker 1: walking away with Please correct me ropes, make sure I
Speaker 1: got the count right, walking away with two two? Yeah, thirteen.
Speaker 1: That's not a great night for this film. And a
Speaker 1: lot of people will point to controversy as to watch.
Speaker 2: Yes, because the controversy happened in the middle of the
Speaker 2: voting period and that may have changed some folks' minds.
Speaker 2: But it was nice to see Zoe's El Danya get
Speaker 2: Best Supporting Actress.
Speaker 3: She says she's the first person of.
Speaker 2: Dominican descent to receive that award, and she was so
Speaker 2: passionate and so excited and really cute about it and.
Speaker 1: Most emotional speech to the night. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3: I think it was, Yes.
Speaker 2: I mean she really you could feel her passion and
Speaker 2: you loved, loved, loved that scene that song in the ballroom,
Speaker 2: And that was the other win for Emilia Perez, which
Speaker 2: was Best Original Song El Mall, which was that scene
Speaker 2: that you talked about. So Zoe kind of was the
Speaker 2: star of both of the moments where I Meania Perez
Speaker 2: got or took home Oscars.
Speaker 1: So I told you I thought she should win an
Speaker 1: Oscar strictly for that performance in that one scene and
Speaker 1: the song in that one scene one an Oscar.
Speaker 3: So it is do you feel validated?
Speaker 1: I do in a lot of ways, but it lets
Speaker 1: me know that I'm not alone in how much that
Speaker 1: one scene stood out. So if you get a chance
Speaker 1: to watch Emilia Perez, that one scene is worth.
Speaker 3: Her red velvet suit in that one scene was die
Speaker 3: form so much.
Speaker 1: But yes, her speech was wonderful tonight. But yes, they
Speaker 1: walked away with only two of thirteen as well, a
Speaker 1: highly nominated film that's been doing well on the awards circuit.
Speaker 3: Awards it won Best Picture.
Speaker 2: So that's why a lot of folks were thinking, wait,
Speaker 2: because Anura did seem to stand out as the favorite.
Speaker 2: But then when Conclave took home the last awards show
Speaker 2: for Best Picture, a lot of folks thought, especially maybe
Speaker 2: even given the current events of the pope.
Speaker 3: But no, it did not.
Speaker 2: It only brought home What was the one it got
Speaker 2: for adapted screenplay?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was one adapted screenplay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that that was a little shot. They were
Speaker 1: nominated for eight ten. I think it was eight they
Speaker 1: were nominated for, but that was It was just a
Speaker 1: Nora's Knight, is what this all boils down to. It
Speaker 1: was the Nora's Knight, So we're gonna go through the night. Yes,
Speaker 1: there were twenty three awards given out. Took three forty
Speaker 1: seven minutes, a little on the longer side for an
Speaker 1: award show, but of course this was Colnan O'Brien's first
Speaker 1: time to host the Awesome. He's done other major award shows,
Speaker 1: but it's almost twenty years since he's done a major
Speaker 1: award show before. So that is what we were expecting.
Speaker 1: At the top of the show, we're waiting to see
Speaker 1: what Conan's gonna do, but a surprise, surprise, surprise for
Speaker 1: a lot of folks robes. This was the most perfect
Speaker 1: and stunning and emotional and uplifting and awnspiring open I've
Speaker 1: seen to an oscar show. Cynthia Rivo and Ariana Grande
Speaker 1: crushed that opening to what You didn't even feel like
Speaker 1: you were watching an award show. You felt like you
Speaker 1: were watching a concert.
Speaker 2: It was incredible obviously to powerhouse voices, and also I
Speaker 2: loved how they started off with There's No Place like
Speaker 2: Home and the Ruby red Slippers and then paying homage
Speaker 2: to La. The city of Los Angeles was behind them,
Speaker 2: so there was a direct nod to what La had
Speaker 2: been through. Just with the opening scene, with the wicked scenes,
Speaker 2: but oh my god, to hear them saying, to hear
Speaker 2: their performances defying gravity. I had chills from head to
Speaker 2: toe and it was pretty cool. In fact, Michelle, yo,
Speaker 2: we love her. She was crmed. It brought people to tears.
Speaker 2: It was that powerful. So the opening I was completely
Speaker 2: one hundred percent in. I thought it was awesome. And
Speaker 2: then when Conan did show up, he paid homage to
Speaker 2: the substance crawling out of Demi Moore's body. I thought
Speaker 2: that was actually really well done. I thought it was
Speaker 2: it just it grabbed your attention.
Speaker 3: It was very entertaining.
Speaker 1: If folks aren't familiar with Conan O'Brien and his humor,
Speaker 1: he's very goofy. He's self deprecating always, and he's kind
Speaker 1: of awkward and spartan. I mean, he's and very spontaneous, spontaneus,
Speaker 1: spontaneous tanius and his uh sometimes his delivery, and but
Speaker 1: he's not afraid at all to make fun of himself.
Speaker 1: He did that throughout the show, but he started joke
Speaker 1: and you know, we saw him at a point where
Speaker 1: we thought he got a little uncomfortable because he wasn't
Speaker 1: quite the room. We always hear about the hosts we've
Speaker 1: talked to in you past. The audience is one thing
Speaker 1: you're trying to play to make sure they are enjoying it.
Speaker 1: But you still have an audience in the room, and
Speaker 1: if they aren't reacting to your jokes, you kind of
Speaker 1: get at You get a moment, and he seems like
Speaker 1: he had a moment where he was trying to recover.
Speaker 3: We saw him.
Speaker 2: It seemed like he was wiping sweat off of his
Speaker 2: face multiple times because he started to feel the pressure.
Speaker 2: The room wasn't reacting the way he thought it was
Speaker 2: going to it a couple of times. But then he
Speaker 2: he pulled off a joke on Carlo Sophia Gascone and
Speaker 2: the controversy, and it landed and he almost did it
Speaker 2: like a jig on the stage.
Speaker 3: He realized like, okay, I'm back, I'm good.
Speaker 2: And actually from that point on he never once seemed
Speaker 2: like he stuttered or faltered, you know what.
Speaker 1: That might have been perhaps the joke of the night
Speaker 1: in saying, so Carlo Sofia GASCONA a lot of people
Speaker 1: familiar with the controversy now, but he was making a
Speaker 1: point that on Nora used the F word so many
Speaker 1: times in that film. They said, that's almost as much
Speaker 1: as Carlo Sofia Gascon's.
Speaker 3: Pop publicist did.
Speaker 1: It was a perfect joke into your point, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people pointed this out Robes. You find a
Speaker 1: way to be funny, You find a way to poke
Speaker 1: fun at something or somebody without being mean, without being offensive.
Speaker 1: He did that throughout the night.
Speaker 2: I thought it was kind of just acknowledging the elephant
Speaker 2: of the room. Yes, and it almost it allowed her.
Speaker 2: They actually took a close up of her and she
Speaker 2: even smiled, so it like it felt like she was
Speaker 2: in on it or she was acknowledging it. It wasn't
Speaker 2: some mean spirited joke. So it landed and it worked,
Speaker 2: and that really was a.
Speaker 3: Game changer for him. Yeah, he got his mojo back
Speaker 3: after that.
Speaker 1: He came back a lot. He did This is a hard,
Speaker 1: hard gig. He nailed it on his first assignment. The
Speaker 1: other joke halfway through he said, we're at the halfway
Speaker 1: point of the show, So this is the time when
Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar comes out and calls Drake a pedophile. There
Speaker 1: was a super Bowl. It's a timely joke, but it
Speaker 1: was again, it was so current and he pointed something
Speaker 1: out without being mean to anybody. I cannot. I take
Speaker 1: my hat off to him to what he did tonight.
Speaker 1: Good job Connor O'Brian. He was a big winner tonight.
Speaker 2: And I think he has to know what he has
Speaker 2: to feel. He landed his plane and then some It
Speaker 2: was really good and I thought, we you know what
Speaker 2: I one of the first big awards. Was it the
Speaker 2: first award the Best Importing Actor? Karen Culkin I think
Speaker 2: started off the acceptance speeches with such a bang as well.
Speaker 3: He was so sweet and cute.
Speaker 2: I thought he was maybe going off on too much
Speaker 2: of a tangent talking about his wife and having promised
Speaker 2: him a third kid after the last win, and then
Speaker 2: a fourth kit if he ever won an oscar.
Speaker 3: But it was really sweet.
Speaker 2: He said, let's get cracking like it just it was
Speaker 2: a cute moment that we kind of got to witness
Speaker 2: and were let in on in his speech.
Speaker 3: It was I thought it was sweet.
Speaker 2: It was not too indulgent and it was just it
Speaker 2: was a it was as a positive moment.
Speaker 1: It took a little while and I think we both acknowledged, like, oh,
Speaker 1: they can't play him off now when he started telling
Speaker 1: the story about his wife and it was it seemed
Speaker 1: like a very authentic and PROMPTU moment. Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: was sweet and it kept cutting away and showing his
Speaker 1: wife's face and you have to have that and that's
Speaker 1: what causes the show to go along sometime. But you
Speaker 1: can't play that guy off. And I said to you,
Speaker 1: thank god, I said, wow, that director, hats off to
Speaker 1: you for letting that ride, because we would have missed
Speaker 1: maybe one of the best moments of the night.
Speaker 2: That's true, But there was another time where the music
Speaker 2: played and it wasn't such a sweet moment, and it
Speaker 2: did get really itchy and strange. And I'm jumping ahead
Speaker 2: to the end. But from Best Supporting Actor to Best Actor, well,
Speaker 2: we can get into that in a bit, but that's
Speaker 2: like such a big moment of the night. I wanted
Speaker 2: to talk about it.
Speaker 3: Am I going out of order? Of course I am.
Speaker 2: But Adrian Brody when he got his Best Actor award,
Speaker 2: and we kept thinking like, okay, here's this solid actor
Speaker 2: with the biggest acting award of the night, and the
Speaker 2: music started playing and he was not having it, and he.
Speaker 3: Said, hey, this isn't my first row. Stop the music.
Speaker 3: But then he kept going and going and going, and
Speaker 3: it did get a little awkward. I don't know, how
Speaker 3: did you feel about that.
Speaker 1: Look, it's his moment, it's his night. He has a
Speaker 1: lot on his heart, and I can't what you put
Speaker 1: into a three hour and thirty five minute movie. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine. He didn't seem that focused necessarily. And I
Speaker 1: think if you watch for a little while, you give
Speaker 1: a little rope there, you want to be a little like, hey, okay,
Speaker 1: it's fine, go ahead, take your time. But his went
Speaker 1: a little long, to the point that it felt like
Speaker 1: he wasn't respecting the show at all. He wasn't respecting
Speaker 1: the audience, he wasn't respecting his philodomenees, he wasn't respecting
Speaker 1: the process and the program. It felt like it went
Speaker 1: that far, even if you were willing to give him
Speaker 1: as much leeway as possible because he's just picked up
Speaker 1: a huge win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we were huge fans of his performance. The
Speaker 2: Brutalist was a tough thing necessary to watch in its entirety,
Speaker 2: but watching him perform was worth the watch. So we
Speaker 2: were huge fans of his performance and what he did
Speaker 2: and the fact that he got that acting nod. But
Speaker 2: what he did on stage tonight definitely wasn't exactly something
Speaker 2: fun to watch for those of us at home. But
Speaker 2: I also really enjoyed watching or just being focused on
Speaker 2: his man brooch, which I noticed was also a theme
Speaker 2: of the night. It was like two guys, I think
Speaker 2: there were three guys. There was some man brooches on display.
Speaker 2: I just thought that you might have started that trend.
Speaker 1: I did not, But no, it's aid. Fashion is always
Speaker 1: the thing I'm always interested in how they know. I mean,
Speaker 1: they become themes to what people were on the red carpets,
Speaker 1: the dresses, the colors, and the hairstyles, and I'm always
Speaker 1: amazed by that. But yes, you pointed out a few
Speaker 1: times that guys were wearing oversized in some cases just
Speaker 1: lapel pins. Asian Brody had his on the right side
Speaker 1: of his jacket and not on the lapel actually, so
Speaker 1: that was a little threw me off a little, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a style.
Speaker 2: You could also call them bejeweled lapel pens right, but
Speaker 2: jeweled lapel pins.
Speaker 1: But dazzled if you want to dazzled, if you want
Speaker 1: to make it sound even more insultant. The Adam Sandler
Speaker 1: bit at the top, dude, did that work?
Speaker 3: That didn't for me.
Speaker 2: So yeah, as much as we were loving what Conan did,
Speaker 2: there were a and look. I mean, I can't even
Speaker 2: imagine having to come up with what he had to
Speaker 2: come up with to keep his performance going and his
Speaker 2: bit going.
Speaker 3: But the Adam Sandler thing, I don't think landed. It
Speaker 3: was a little.
Speaker 2: Bizarre that he showed up in his classic Adam Sandler
Speaker 2: look and then felt like he had to leave in
Speaker 2: shame because he wasn't dressed appropriately. And then his number
Speaker 2: with I won't waste time When he sang that number,
Speaker 2: I thought that was also a little bizarre. Neither one
Speaker 2: of those bits lasted too long, but I think it
Speaker 2: was pretty obvious that they didn't really work.
Speaker 3: But everything else was great.
Speaker 1: The only reason I did like the hit him doing
Speaker 1: the number I won't waste time. And folks, if you
Speaker 1: didn't see it at Am Taendler, your host Coonel Ryan
Speaker 1: after he goes through his entire monologue and tells the
Speaker 1: jokes and say, hey, I know these shows are off
Speaker 1: for going long, but I assure you I'm not going
Speaker 1: to waste your time. And then he took two minutes
Speaker 1: wasting your time with this with a song that was
Speaker 1: no part of the show. It meant nothing. So it
Speaker 1: was a little ways to go for a bit, but
Speaker 1: at least I could give him credit on that. The
Speaker 1: night started, we didn't get to a first award until
Speaker 1: seven thirty. Like you just mentioned Kieran Colkin, who was
Speaker 1: the overwhelming largest favorite of the night. It was almost
Speaker 1: you knew he was going to win. But how does
Speaker 1: that how does the show end up feeling when it
Speaker 1: started thirty minutes ago. I'm seeing the first ward at
Speaker 1: seven thirty, and then from seven thirty seven forty eight
Speaker 1: o'clock what you're seeing is Best Animated Feature, Best Short Feature,
Speaker 1: Best Costume Design, Best Original Screenplay, Best Adaptive Screenplay, Best
Speaker 1: makeup in it you go through for the next almost
Speaker 1: hour and a half before you get to any major awards.
Speaker 1: These are all important, I'm not taking away, but for
Speaker 1: a lot of people sometimes with the show, that seems
Speaker 1: to drag when you get to that type of lull
Speaker 1: quote unquote I'm not knocking it, but the show at
Speaker 1: that point took a little bit of a slower.
Speaker 2: Turn, without a doubt, and because the show started off
Speaker 2: with such a bang, with the performances from Wicked going
Speaker 2: and doing his thing, and then even having Kieran's great
Speaker 2: acceptance speech, it definitely slowed down for me. And I
Speaker 2: would say, normally, if I weren't doing this podcast and
Speaker 2: I had an early wake up call, which we do,
Speaker 2: I would probably have started watching it from bed and
Speaker 2: nodding off and falling asleep. That is what has happened
Speaker 2: in years past and that's probably what would have happened
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: Wow. So you make a good point there, because it
Speaker 1: does if you're just laying down and watching. And we
Speaker 1: watched all these movies. A lot of people did not.
Speaker 1: These were not necessarily huge blockbusters for the most part.
Speaker 1: But you get to the James Bond tribute. You know,
Speaker 1: let's mention first, I'm sorry, the first black Man and
Speaker 1: to win for Best Costume Design Wicked. It needs to
Speaker 1: be mentioned there. So there was a bit of history
Speaker 1: you had. You had the first Lotvian movie Flow it
Speaker 1: was the best animated feature, so there was some history
Speaker 1: they had a sweet speech they did to acknowledge that history.
Speaker 1: You're laughing, Oh, just.
Speaker 2: I was laughing at the couple that were because they
Speaker 2: didn't speak English, the Iranian couple in the shadow of Cyprus,
Speaker 2: so they didn't have visas until yesterday, so they literally
Speaker 2: looked like they had run off the plane come up
Speaker 2: on the stage.
Speaker 3: They didn't speak good.
Speaker 2: English, which is what they said, and then they were
Speaker 2: trying to read off their phone and going back and forth.
Speaker 3: It was it was.
Speaker 2: It was slightly awkward, but it also was sweet because
Speaker 2: it was truly authentic and they were so excited. But
Speaker 2: that was an interesting moment. Like I actually found those
Speaker 2: acceptance speeches to be really interesting because there was heart,
Speaker 2: the authentic There was authentic heart behind both of them,
Speaker 2: and they weren't your typical I'd like to thank the Academy.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the James Bond tribute, I'm not sure. And
Speaker 1: you know almost huge Bond family, I know.
Speaker 3: So that means a lot coming from you.
Speaker 1: So they had a Bond tribute that seemed unnecessary? Is
Speaker 1: that fair to say?
Speaker 3: Yes? I was confused, bye why I was looking at it.
Speaker 1: And again, I know there's a lot that's happened now
Speaker 1: with Bond going over to or the rights going over
Speaker 1: to Amazon. So it's been in the news, but it
Speaker 1: just seemed tonight that wasn't a babe.
Speaker 2: If I was not your partner and I didn't know
Speaker 2: how much you loved James Bond, I wouldn't have even
Speaker 2: known when they mentioned the Broccoli family. They didn't really
Speaker 2: put context for anyone who doesn't understand that they're the
Speaker 2: ones who owned James Bond and they're the ones that
Speaker 2: just sold the rights to it to Amazon. If I
Speaker 2: weren't dating you, I would have been like, what is happening.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have understood what they were saying.
Speaker 2: They never made it clear why they showed the Broccoli
Speaker 2: family in the audience and then just started playing James
Speaker 2: Bond music.
Speaker 3: I was like, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Was that not on us? Were we not too many
Speaker 1: Margarita's end at the time? Maybe we missed it. I
Speaker 1: just want to make sure I know.
Speaker 2: I absolutely was thinking, thank god, I even have some
Speaker 2: context here, because they didn't give any So I don't
Speaker 2: know if anyone else was watching and they didn't understand,
Speaker 2: I would have been right there with.
Speaker 1: You on tribute, though, Highlight Ray. Yesay, listen, we are
Speaker 1: just getting on the Ray bandwagon. Here is of Late
Speaker 1: after the Grammys. Okay, Ray should have been handed an
Speaker 1: oscar on the spot of any kind. That woman Lord,
Speaker 1: sweet baby, black Jesus. She can sing night she is.
Speaker 2: And it's tough to take a song on that Adele
Speaker 2: made famous with Skyfall.
Speaker 1: Okay, that was incredible to me. Now, there were a
Speaker 1: couple of moments, not that many, but where some political
Speaker 1: statements were made. Yes, and I think who was it.
Speaker 1: There was one statement, well, I'm blanking on her name
Speaker 1: right now from Splash from Splash, Yes, the actress from Splash, right.
Speaker 2: That's so funny. It's such an old movie. I didn't
Speaker 2: know Darryl Daryl Hannah.
Speaker 3: I was like, wait Splash and.
Speaker 2: I was like wait, okay, because I came in, I
Speaker 2: went to go grab some waters and came back.
Speaker 3: I said, wait, is that Darryl Hannah. Yes.
Speaker 1: He introduced her by saying she was the most beautiful
Speaker 1: Daryl on the planet. So yes, Darryl Hann. She came
Speaker 1: out and she threw up a peace sign and said
Speaker 1: something about Ukraine, but then went right into it. But
Speaker 1: there was a moment no other Land the best Documentary
Speaker 1: Feature Film. Now folks don't know about this and Robes.
Speaker 1: It's hard to find. If you haven't seen it, it's hard.
Speaker 1: You have to go do some digging to find this
Speaker 1: best Documentary Feature film that won. But it's a joint
Speaker 1: collaboration between Palestinians and Israelis making this film. And they
Speaker 1: went up there, the Palestinian and Israeli Robes filmmakers.
Speaker 3: The incredible.
Speaker 1: Put them in the room. They will settle peace for you.
Speaker 1: Put those two in a It was very incredible.
Speaker 2: It was I had chills. I want to see this documentary.
Speaker 2: In fact, my daughter was watching the Oscars from her apartment.
Speaker 2: We were texting back and forth and she said, I'm obsessed.
Speaker 2: I want to see this so badly. I can't find
Speaker 2: out how to watch this film. But I feel like, yes,
Speaker 2: given this situation we're in in the Middle East right now,
Speaker 2: just to see Palestinian and Israeli together on that stage
Speaker 2: making art and winning an Academy Award doing it, it
Speaker 2: was awesome.
Speaker 1: And I wrote this line down. It was amazing. It
Speaker 1: should be the lead line in every meeting having to
Speaker 1: do with peace, said, my people can be safe if
Speaker 1: his people can be free.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, and just to see them most powerful.
Speaker 1: That was probably one of the coolest moments of the
Speaker 1: night top three for sure. But it was just it
Speaker 1: was a It was an important and authentic and it
Speaker 1: was a human moment. I really really appreciate that.
Speaker 2: You know, we complain where a lot of people complained
Speaker 2: about actors making political statements and taking this platform and
Speaker 2: this opportunity to do so I get that, but this
Speaker 2: was just the moment where that was their art, that
Speaker 2: was what the subject matter was, and it was so real.
Speaker 3: They weren't making a political statement. They were just being.
Speaker 2: Two human beings on the stage who found a way
Speaker 2: to connect and to understand one another. And that's what
Speaker 2: this is all about. So hopefully that could maybe one
Speaker 2: day be life imitating art or art imitating life.
Speaker 3: But it was a moment.
Speaker 1: It was so special, and they had their moment to
Speaker 1: speak and to say what they wanted to say. We
Speaker 1: saw a few playouts right where they turned the music
Speaker 1: on then the speeches or whatnot. The first time we
Speaker 1: saw it was at nine ten when they were doing
Speaker 1: the Best Documentary Short feature and those folks went a
Speaker 1: little long. Yes, so they started to play them out,
Speaker 1: so you're the music come on. But one of the
Speaker 1: coolest moments of the night, and I'll ask you as well.
Speaker 1: They brought out members of the LA Fire Department, of course,
Speaker 1: who've been the wonderful firefighters. We saw this at a
Speaker 1: previous award show, was.
Speaker 3: It the Grammy.
Speaker 1: So they brought a big group out. This was a
Speaker 1: much smaller group, but ro I was okay.
Speaker 3: I said cool.
Speaker 1: When they first came out, I said, wow, that's a
Speaker 1: very small group. But then they gave them speaking parts,
Speaker 1: with which I thought was brilliant.
Speaker 2: Not just speaking parts, they let them give out the jokes.
Speaker 2: Maybe the first one was a little tough. I was like, ooh,
Speaker 2: Conan might not have wanted to say that on his own,
Speaker 2: So we gave it to He gave it to the
Speaker 2: firefighter to say. It was something referencing about not having homes.
Speaker 3: I know what it was.
Speaker 2: What was the movie that he said, if you made
Speaker 2: this movie, you might not have a home?
Speaker 3: It was it was the people who made what movie?
Speaker 1: Was it?
Speaker 2: This movie has been the butt of so many jokes.
Speaker 2: This isn't the first time this movie. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 2: gonna find it.
Speaker 1: I cannot remember but he was cute to.
Speaker 3: See them try to deliver jokes and kind of do
Speaker 3: a dead pan.
Speaker 1: But it was cool that the members of the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Fire Department. Absolutely, of course they should get as
Speaker 1: much attention and love and so and recognition for what
Speaker 1: they've been doing and what they have done out there
Speaker 1: with those devastating fires that were ravaging all all round
Speaker 1: LA in the month of January. Recognition is one thing,
Speaker 1: but they got to actually be a part of the show.
Speaker 1: They got to actually have reading lines. They were introduced
Speaker 1: with right their rank and their first and their last name,
Speaker 1: and they got to have a really really cool moment.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was a nice nugget. You found
Speaker 1: the joke.
Speaker 3: I found the joke.
Speaker 2: So this is what And one of the headlines is
Speaker 2: Conan O'Brien forces LA firefighter to read his riskiest oscar joke,
Speaker 2: which I kind of agree with.
Speaker 3: So here was the joke.
Speaker 2: Our hearts go out to all of those who lost
Speaker 2: their homes. And I'm talking about the producers of Joker too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was it. It was right on the line.
Speaker 2: It still worked, but it worked better than the firefighter
Speaker 2: said it versus Conan saying it and all.
Speaker 1: I think they did a really good risk The firefighters
Speaker 1: did a good job. They did they did you say
Speaker 1: risky there? I think Conan didn't take too many No,
Speaker 1: but he had one line. He had one joke that
Speaker 1: folks will not appreciate. After Honora picked up a couple
Speaker 1: of wins and it was clear they were going to
Speaker 1: be having a good night, he said later in the evening,
Speaker 1: and this was the joke. Honora is having a good night.
Speaker 1: Americans are happy to see someone standing up to a
Speaker 1: powerful Russian.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, but you know what.
Speaker 2: To me, that was again he and he skated a
Speaker 2: line where yes, there was a political statement ish, but
Speaker 2: it was in goods fun so it landed.
Speaker 3: It worked.
Speaker 2: I thought he did that really really well, acknowledging what's
Speaker 2: going on, poking a little fun at it, but not
Speaker 2: going over the top or going over the line. He
Speaker 2: never crossed the line.
Speaker 1: I don't think he did.
Speaker 3: I don't think he did it.
Speaker 1: And if you can make that audience, that room in particular,
Speaker 1: feel safe. Look, you're going to get poked a little,
Speaker 1: but you don't want that room to be uncomfortable. Conan
Speaker 1: O'Brien did a masterful job today. He is going to
Speaker 1: be invited back again and again and again.
Speaker 3: I think he will too. He did a g great job.
Speaker 1: Who is the group tonight? Robes? You had to remind
Speaker 1: me because a lot of people are complaining about it.
Speaker 1: The two people who started singing awkwardly in their accept
Speaker 1: this speech? Where was that?
Speaker 3: So it was?
Speaker 2: I know because that was when Ava, my daughter, was
Speaker 2: about thirty seconds ahead of us, and she was sending
Speaker 2: me texts like why are these people singing? I'm so
Speaker 2: confused what is happening right now? And I believe it
Speaker 2: was for I know. I'm trying to look at my
Speaker 2: notes too, because it was a bizarre moment where you're
Speaker 2: just like, wait, why are they doing this right now?
Speaker 1: People broke out in song at some point on stage,
Speaker 1: and some people found it cringe worthy and they were
Speaker 1: They're saying all kinds of things about it online, but
Speaker 1: you can. I'm not even sure how big of an
Speaker 1: award it was for the night, but anyway, I was
Speaker 1: thinking about that the end memorialm We knew Gene Hackman
Speaker 1: was going to be mentioned and honored at some point
Speaker 1: in the evening, and they brought out Morgan Freeman yes
Speaker 1: to do so. He came out. Essentially, it was the
Speaker 1: introduction to the end memoriam, and he just spoke a
Speaker 1: few words about Gene Hagwin and gave him, I guess,
Speaker 1: two minutes where he was kind of singled out, and
Speaker 1: then they went into the end memoriam, which is something
Speaker 1: that people always pay attention to. Robes I a year,
Speaker 1: you forget how many people we lose in a year.
Speaker 3: Always.
Speaker 2: I was surprised, and you're, like James Earl Jones, like
Speaker 2: you just started to realize. I was going through it
Speaker 2: and watching all the people who we lost, and not
Speaker 2: just the famous names who I had forgotten had passed,
Speaker 2: which definitely happened, but just people who were a part
Speaker 2: of this community and a part of creating this art
Speaker 2: that we all enjoy, and just it was reminding me.
Speaker 3: Just how fleeting life is.
Speaker 2: I was having a moment listening and watching and just
Speaker 2: being moved by remembering not just honoring them, but remembering
Speaker 2: how quickly time passes and how important it is we
Speaker 2: all can celebrate and honor each other and be in
Speaker 2: good spirits.
Speaker 3: I just thought this.
Speaker 2: I thought the whole show really honored that. It didn't
Speaker 2: feel divisive, didn't we just have so much that we're
Speaker 2: now ingesting and consuming that feels ugh icky, and this
Speaker 2: was just I thought this was a beautiful night.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard that word y, we haven't used that
Speaker 1: word yet, but that's the right one. This show did
Speaker 1: not feel divisive. Nope, we have so much that divides us. Yes,
Speaker 1: the show tonight did not and not think Conan should
Speaker 1: be given a lot of credit for that. But it
Speaker 1: didn't feel politics divides us. But even when politics came
Speaker 1: up tonight, it was in the spirit of bringing us together. Yes,
Speaker 1: I appreciated that. I'm curious to see what the ratings
Speaker 1: are going to end up being because these were movies
Speaker 1: that did not do great as far as box office numbers.
Speaker 1: They made I think one point seven billion less the
Speaker 1: nominees this year than the nominees from last year. So
Speaker 1: this mainstream audiences didn't seal a lot of these movies.
Speaker 1: Is that going to make it. It's a good show.
Speaker 2: It was a good show I and maybe we enjoyed
Speaker 2: it more. We talked about this because we watched it.
Speaker 3: We watched all.
Speaker 2: The movies for the podcast, and it just made Tonight
Speaker 2: so much more enjoyable. In fact, our producers who said
Speaker 2: they were gonna throw a party, a watch party, because
Speaker 2: they watched all the shows and were invested in it.
Speaker 2: Sent us pictures from there. It was cute. It just
Speaker 2: it makes a big difference when you watch the movies.
Speaker 2: And one of the so we saw and I did
Speaker 2: not know who this was beforehand, but it was great
Speaker 2: to see Sean Baker, who was the who won best director,
Speaker 2: it was best Picture for a Noura and what was
Speaker 2: best Editor. So he got up there and one of
Speaker 2: his acceptance be just because he got to give three
Speaker 2: was a big plea for people to go to the theaters.
Speaker 2: And I actually loved that. Normally, like, yeah, don't get
Speaker 2: up and tell me what to do or what to
Speaker 2: think or what to feel, but his love and passion
Speaker 2: for what he does came through, and he just took
Speaker 2: the moment to talk to all of us at home
Speaker 2: to go see these films in the theaters, to go
Speaker 2: and support the people who make this art in a
Speaker 2: real way, and just it was I really, we love
Speaker 2: going to the theater, so you don't need.
Speaker 3: To tell us.
Speaker 2: But I just thought it was actually a really valuable
Speaker 2: use of his time and and normally, you know, think
Speaker 2: about it if you have to go up, have to
Speaker 2: if you have the honor of going up three times,
Speaker 2: think about that. You have to have three different acceptance
Speaker 2: speeches that are creative and on brand, and this is
Speaker 2: your opportunity to talk.
Speaker 3: But that's a pretty cool problem to have.
Speaker 1: But he was so quirky in himself tonight. He was
Speaker 1: you were rooting for him.
Speaker 2: You choose It was a good word, cute, authentic and
Speaker 2: just so happy and earnest.
Speaker 3: It was awesome.
Speaker 1: Ry last two things you want to hit on here tonight,
Speaker 1: I should say three before we wrap. One has to
Speaker 1: be Mikey Madison. Another has to be the Quincy Drones tribute.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, and then the other has to be fashion.
Speaker 1: So start with the Quincy Jones tribute. Oprah and Whoopee.
Speaker 1: Whoopy came out to introduce it, and I don't should
Speaker 1: I be the one to bring up fashion? Okay, it
Speaker 1: comes to Oprah and Whoopee because they both made very
Speaker 1: significance and I thought, very bad ass but very different
Speaker 1: fashion statements in what they were wearing.
Speaker 3: They were bold, they owned it.
Speaker 2: I actually would have assumed they would have swapped what
Speaker 2: they were wearing with one another, like it's funny what
Speaker 2: Oprah was wearing. I was like, I could see I
Speaker 2: could see Whoopee rocking that, and what Whoopy was wearing,
Speaker 2: I could see Oprah rocking.
Speaker 3: So but yeah, they were stand out.
Speaker 2: They were elegant, and they they were just proud, confident
Speaker 2: women who knew exactly that they owned where they were
Speaker 2: and deserved to be doing and saying what they were
Speaker 2: doing with.
Speaker 1: Their relationship with Quincy, going to the color Purple, Color
Speaker 1: Color Purple, and these one who owe so much of
Speaker 1: their lives and their livelihood and who they are to
Speaker 1: Quincy Jones that tribute and then you have Queen Latie
Speaker 1: come out and do I kind of remember the song.
Speaker 3: Get down the Wizz, Yeah from the Whiz.
Speaker 1: So that was a cool moment to see in the
Speaker 1: Quincy Jones tribute that we knew down it had to
Speaker 1: be a part of Look And if folks, if you
Speaker 1: haven't listened to our preview r we did our Oscar preview.
Speaker 1: We did two episodes. We watched all the movies so
Speaker 1: you didn't have to, but we gave our predictions for
Speaker 1: who we thought were going to win in each category
Speaker 1: at Robes. I don't think there was anybody we were
Speaker 1: more enthusiastically supportive of than Mikey Madison.
Speaker 2: Mikey Madison because we just loved her in this movie.
Speaker 2: What she did is so difficult to do, and she
Speaker 2: did it so well, so effortlessly. But to take on
Speaker 2: the role of a sex worker, to expose yourself and
Speaker 2: dance the way she had to, and then just oh wow,
Speaker 2: her perform moments, I can't even put it into words,
Speaker 2: but it was so good and so real. I felt
Speaker 2: like at times I was watching a documentary rather than
Speaker 2: watching someone reading lines in a script.
Speaker 3: It just all seemed so natural.
Speaker 1: They gave I think Sean Baker did, the director, but
Speaker 1: she did as well. They gave a shout out to
Speaker 1: the sex worker community saying they talk about the relationships
Speaker 1: they formed and people they have come to know and
Speaker 1: be around and were getting ready for the film. So
Speaker 1: that was, I guess, something you don't see a lot
Speaker 1: or hardly ever at the Oscars necessarily, So it was cool.
Speaker 2: To see her not just portray someone who may work
Speaker 2: in that industry, but to also yes, say I learned
Speaker 2: from you. I you know, worked with you, sat with you,
Speaker 2: watched you learn from you.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was really cool. To see that, but
Speaker 3: so happy she won.
Speaker 1: Remind me, did Mikey got the Bafta?
Speaker 2: Oh help me, she got the shed the Baftaze. Okay,
Speaker 2: because Demi Moore had swept all the other awards, Golden globes,
Speaker 2: I believe to me, Moore got the sag Award.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So people were thinking it was between the two, but
Speaker 2: Demi was still the heavy favorite.
Speaker 1: She was and in Vegas she was the favorite as well.
Speaker 3: We looked, see, I told you we should have. We
Speaker 3: should have pit some money on. We would have. We
Speaker 3: would have done well tonight.
Speaker 2: See. Now this is what happens. You start to think
Speaker 2: you can win and then you get sucked into it.
Speaker 2: We're not going to, but we could have, and maybe
Speaker 2: we should have.
Speaker 1: Last thing we went on. I'm just curious. When I
Speaker 1: say Oscar's twenty twenty five fashion, you say.
Speaker 3: Oh, it was like a nineteen forties theme.
Speaker 1: Okay, there was thought to say canary suit.
Speaker 2: Oh oh well yeah that was the canary of the
Speaker 2: coal mine, right, Like that was you know if they
Speaker 2: took a every time they took a huge audience shot,
Speaker 2: all I.
Speaker 3: Could see was Timothy shot. He was like that was
Speaker 3: the point. Yeah. So who's laughing now?
Speaker 2: He knew that all eyes would be on his Lemon
Speaker 2: Sherbert tuxedo that I was not a fan of.
Speaker 1: Why just because of the color, because yeah, it had
Speaker 1: to be the color it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I saw a picture of him from a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago in an all pink get up.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's his thing. He likes to stand out.
Speaker 3: He's an artist. I get it. It's just I'm not
Speaker 3: a fan of it.
Speaker 1: Do they have on jeans tonight? By the way, what
Speaker 1: do I think he might have had.
Speaker 2: On yellow jeans? I didn't even pay that close of attent. Honestly,
Speaker 2: I was just blinded by the yellowness of everything. I
Speaker 2: didn't get into the specifics of what clothing like articles
Speaker 2: of clothing he had on. I just knew everything was
Speaker 2: bright yellow.
Speaker 1: Timothy chat May he can do no wrong when it
Speaker 1: comes to fashion.
Speaker 3: According to my daughters, you are correct, you can do
Speaker 3: no wrong. Yeah, I mean, look, he's a great actor.
Speaker 2: I mean does obviously two movies that were nominated, So
Speaker 2: that's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: He was nominated for Best Actor at the age of what.
Speaker 2: Hell, yeah, no, he is a phenom and I get it.
Speaker 2: These are these creative types. They like to stand out
Speaker 2: in the crowd. But I that would have been tough.
Speaker 2: Like if you and I were going somewhere you said, hey, babe,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna wear an.
Speaker 3: All yellow tuks.
Speaker 1: Make it work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I guess, And that's it was Kylie
Speaker 2: Jenner with him, right, So she wouldn't all black. I think.
Speaker 3: So that makes sense.
Speaker 2: You're like, I don't even know, don't I think I
Speaker 2: don't know the cardash.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's a Kardashian. I guess.
Speaker 1: I can't. I don't know what to call which one
Speaker 1: I can't. And there's some Genners in there, right. No,
Speaker 1: she's not a Genner, she's a Ginner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kylie Jenner, I just.
Speaker 1: Stopped talking your embarrassings though, Wait, what did I say? No,
Speaker 1: this is what you tell me to stop talking.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty said Kylie, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, Yes.
Speaker 2: It was Kylie Jenner. Oh he's so funny. They're saying
Speaker 2: Timothy shallow May's golden ticket.
Speaker 1: Oh it was supposed to be a gold Night situation.
Speaker 2: No, but it looked more yellow to me. I think
Speaker 2: that might be people stretching a little bit trying to
Speaker 2: give him. Yeah, that was not gold, that was yellow.
Speaker 2: That was canary yellow.
Speaker 1: Okay. Anyway, so what about the rest of the evening
Speaker 1: Besides the color of Timothy's suit, Well, I.
Speaker 2: Just noticed a lot of the women had a nineteen
Speaker 2: forties vibe to their hair, even like in the pre
Speaker 2: show Julianne huff did. I saw Emma Stone had like
Speaker 2: a very like that same kind of a hairstyle, so
Speaker 2: did Well, you know what, who was the singer who
Speaker 2: we were just talking about, who we love worth it right?
Speaker 2: She had that, she has had that kind of hairstyle.
Speaker 2: But oh, Selena Gomez had that kind of hairstyle. I
Speaker 2: just saw a lot of retro nineteen forties looks, but
Speaker 2: no one really did anything crazy or out of the ordinary.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: Always both of them did kind of a Wizard of
Speaker 2: Oz looking esque dress, but they rocked it in their performances.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I don't think anyone really stood out to
Speaker 2: me as being over the top, except for Timothy Shalome
Speaker 2: just for the color.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it here in the computer and I'm
Speaker 1: the I don't know, obviously, I couldn't never pull something
Speaker 1: like that off, but uh, he likes the colors. It
Speaker 1: was a big night. They're gonna party hard. Do you think, yo, you.
Speaker 2: Know who's gonna party hard? This was fun to watch Anora.
Speaker 2: When the whole cast got up at the end for
Speaker 2: Best Picture. We don't know his name because we just
Speaker 2: call him the Russian kid. But the Russian actor who
Speaker 2: played opposite Mikey Madison, he we thought he was phenomenal
Speaker 2: in an Aura. I was surprised he did not get nominated,
Speaker 2: but it's cool. The kid doesn't get nominated. But he's
Speaker 2: standing up on that stage and he is jumping up
Speaker 2: and down almost like childlike enthusiasm. He is young, twenty four,
Speaker 2: he's twenty three. But you looked at me, you go,
Speaker 2: he's gonna have some fun to do fifteen and good
Speaker 2: for them. I hope they all do. I mean, how fun.
Speaker 2: We'll see all the pictures.
Speaker 1: Mark Edelstein is his name, by the way, what's his name?
Speaker 1: Mark Edelstein? And he's not really he doesn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of credits to his name. But a Russian actor
Speaker 1: twenty three years old got this role. And if you
Speaker 1: haven't seen the movie, he gives an unbelievable performance and
Speaker 1: you can't take your eyes off of him, and tonight
Speaker 1: you couldn't take your eyes off of him because he
Speaker 1: looked like he was having the best time of anybody
Speaker 1: in that room. Sweet, and it was sweet. He'll never
Speaker 1: be back, probably there's a chance he will never be
Speaker 1: back in that room.
Speaker 3: And maybe he'll win Best Actor next year. You never know.
Speaker 2: But I always appreciate people who a show up and
Speaker 2: even when they're not nominated and when they think maybe
Speaker 2: they should have been. And I don't know if his
Speaker 2: head was even in that space, but if you watch
Speaker 2: his performance, I think it would have been something that
Speaker 2: would have absolutely been considered.
Speaker 3: He was that good.
Speaker 2: But he was still up there, supporting his smoothie, supporting obviously.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was really cool to see.
Speaker 2: I every time I see people just joyful and appreciative,
Speaker 2: even when they don't win, that's always.
Speaker 3: It's reassuring.
Speaker 1: And this last thing you have to tell me whether
Speaker 1: or not how much is this being talked about or not.
Speaker 1: Zindiya was not there tonight for Doom Too.
Speaker 3: I looked it up because I was curious.
Speaker 2: I was thinking, wait, June two won two awards her
Speaker 2: co anchor co anchor, that's hilarious. Her co star Timothy
Speaker 2: Shallamy was not dominated, so I thought it was weird
Speaker 2: that we didn't see her or Tom Holland anyway. I
Speaker 2: just googled it and people were already saying that she
Speaker 2: didn't come because she wasn't nominated, and that her boyfriend,
Speaker 2: you know, wasn't in any pictures that were you know,
Speaker 2: he did more theater this year. But I still don't
Speaker 2: think it's a great look to not Maybe she has
Speaker 2: a real excuse, but people are already trying to figure
Speaker 2: out why, and there's things because she was snubbed or whatever.
Speaker 2: Hopefully that's not the case. Maybe she's shocking somewhere. Yea,
Speaker 2: but she was not there tonight. I was because I
Speaker 2: was looking for She's always like a style icon. I
Speaker 2: always love seeing her on the red carpet.
Speaker 1: But when I look, we've been and we've been to
Speaker 1: We've covered a bunch of oscars over the years, and
Speaker 1: this was a show that I thought nailed it tonally.
Speaker 1: It needed to hit a particular note because of everything
Speaker 1: that's happened in La with the fires. You can't go
Speaker 1: over the top and just honoring yourself and seeing patting
Speaker 1: yourself on the back when all this is going on,
Speaker 1: but he acknowledged how what was the word superflu I
Speaker 1: think maybe he might have used the top acknowledge how
Speaker 1: it can seem, how it can come off. But at
Speaker 1: the same time you find a balance with honoring these
Speaker 1: folks who are It's not the superstars. It's not the
Speaker 1: Andrew and Brodie's, it's not the Sean Baker's, it's not
Speaker 1: the Demi Moores. It's all those people who work in production.
Speaker 1: It's all those people, the audio guys, the guys who
Speaker 1: handled the sets, those guys lost homes. Those guys and
Speaker 1: those gals are the really the backbone of this industry,
Speaker 1: not the superstars. I thought they that was well written
Speaker 1: and make the point at the top.
Speaker 2: I just thought it was a great show from start
Speaker 2: to finish. I'm glad we stayed up and watched. And
Speaker 2: you know, there have been the last oscars that you
Speaker 2: and I were actually physically at was the slab heard
Speaker 2: around the world with Will Smith and you know that.
Speaker 2: I remember, oh, yeah, there's this other comedian. His name's
Speaker 2: Chris Rock and the two of them had this little
Speaker 2: incident on stage. Yeah, so we've come a long way
Speaker 2: from there. This one was about yes, more inclusiveness, unity,
Speaker 2: and yeah it was. It was nice to see everybody
Speaker 2: getting along.
Speaker 1: We enjoyed. I hope you all enjoyed. We always appreciate
Speaker 1: you all hanging with us. You can catch us, of course,
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Speaker 1: thank you for listening.
Speaker 3: I'm TJ Holm, Yeah, and I'm Amy Roeboch.
Speaker 2: Have a wonderful evening and hopefully we'll catch you on
Speaker 2: the Morning Run on Monday.